TY - JOUR
T1 - Coupling Plasmonic Pt Nanoparticles with AlGaN Nanostructures for Enhanced Broadband Photoelectrochemical-Detection Applications
AU - Kang, Yang
AU - Wang, Danhao
AU - Fang, Shi
AU - Liu, Xin
AU - Yu, Huabin
AU - Jia, Hongfeng
AU - Zhang, Haochen
AU - Luo, Yuanmin
AU - Ooi, Boon S.
AU - He, Jr-Hau
AU - Sun, Haiding
AU - Long, Shibing
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-12-14
Acknowledgements: This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 61905236), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (grant no. WK2100230020), USTC Research Funds of the Double First-Class Initiative (grant no. YD3480002002), and City
University of Hong Kong (grant no. 9380107) and was partially carried out at the USTC Center for Micro and Nanoscale Research and Fabrication.
PY - 2021/12/2
Y1 - 2021/12/2
N2 - Coupling the plasmonic metals with semiconductors often induces strong charge and energy transfer across heterointerfaces, offering an unprecedented opportunity to break the fundamental limit of semiconductor optoelectronic devices. Herein, we demonstrate a broadened photodetection bandwidth with drastically enhanced photoresponsivity of photoelectrochemical cells by coupling the plasmonic–platinum nanoparticles with p-type AlGaN-semiconductor nanostructures. Benefiting from the localized surface plasmon resonance at the platinum-AlGaN nanostructure interface, our devices exhibit a striking 3 orders of magnitude boost of the photoresponsivity in the visible band, which is barely attainable in pristine wide band gap semiconductors. Simultaneously, a nearly sevenfold enhancement of the photoresponsivity can also be achieved under 254 nm light illumination, demonstrating high-responsive deep ultraviolet-sensitive broad-bandwidth photodetection. Most importantly, the proposed plasmon-induced metal/semiconductor hybrid nanoarchitectures, by embracing a diversity of plasmonic metals combined with the wide tunable band gap of the group III-nitride semiconductors via synergy of the plasmonic–photoelectric effect, show significant promise in designing specific wavelength-dominance broadband photosensing systems of the future.
AB - Coupling the plasmonic metals with semiconductors often induces strong charge and energy transfer across heterointerfaces, offering an unprecedented opportunity to break the fundamental limit of semiconductor optoelectronic devices. Herein, we demonstrate a broadened photodetection bandwidth with drastically enhanced photoresponsivity of photoelectrochemical cells by coupling the plasmonic–platinum nanoparticles with p-type AlGaN-semiconductor nanostructures. Benefiting from the localized surface plasmon resonance at the platinum-AlGaN nanostructure interface, our devices exhibit a striking 3 orders of magnitude boost of the photoresponsivity in the visible band, which is barely attainable in pristine wide band gap semiconductors. Simultaneously, a nearly sevenfold enhancement of the photoresponsivity can also be achieved under 254 nm light illumination, demonstrating high-responsive deep ultraviolet-sensitive broad-bandwidth photodetection. Most importantly, the proposed plasmon-induced metal/semiconductor hybrid nanoarchitectures, by embracing a diversity of plasmonic metals combined with the wide tunable band gap of the group III-nitride semiconductors via synergy of the plasmonic–photoelectric effect, show significant promise in designing specific wavelength-dominance broadband photosensing systems of the future.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/673954
UR - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsanm.1c03239
U2 - 10.1021/acsanm.1c03239
DO - 10.1021/acsanm.1c03239
M3 - Article
SN - 2574-0970
JO - ACS Applied Nano Materials
JF - ACS Applied Nano Materials
ER -